If you missed the Forever Blue event at BHS on March 21st, you can listen to it here on WNYC:
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio with Peter O’Malley, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers 1970 – 1998, and Richard Sandomir, Sports Broadcasting Reporter for the New York Times, as they discuss the true story of Walter O’Malley and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles on the occasion of the launch of Mr. D’Antonio’s new book Forever Blue.
I just discovered this excellent article about lettering on Brooklyn architecture by Paul Shaw on the AIGA website. BHS’s original 1881 lettering spelling out “Long Island Historical Society” is included along with dozens of other great lettering in Shaw’s article. Check it out!
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/lettering-grows-in-brooklyn
Photo collage including BHS (top center) from Paul Shaw's article on the AIGA website.
A tour of 5 1/2 black culture spots in Fort Greene by Nelson George:
5 1/2 Things About Ft. Greene By Nelson George from Nelson George on Vimeo.
I’m loving this new blog about raising bees in Brooklyn:
And it’s really neat that City Councilmember David Yassky (D – Brooklyn Heights) is Pro-Honey:
Legalized beekeeping would ‘stimulate just the kind of niche manufacturing sectors that will be critical to an economic turnaround’.
Despite yesterday’s snow, soon it will be warm enough to go to the beach. In honor of impending summer, here’s a clip from the Surfing Heritage Foundation’s oral history collections:
